Week 46: Facebook's tentacles, the echo chamber, and the evolution of crowdfunding

Silvia NovakLead Strategist

16 November 20173 min read

Weekly web missives from the Friday strategy team. A selection of this week's encounters with design, business, trends and culture.

Networks

Ever wondered how that person you had a drunken chat with at 3am in the kebab shop ends up being recommended as a Facebook friend the following day? Well Facebook's shadow profiles mean 6 degrees of separation is actually more like 3 and a half...

Design

Culture

Kickstarter launched a new tool, Drip, for people to fund and build community around their ongoing creative practice. Where Kickstarter campaigns are built around specific, isolated projects Drip is meant to sustain creators on an ongoing basis. Creators at launch include podcast hosts, editors, choreographers and artists.